To what extent have Iraqi engineering research emphases changed over the past fifteen years or so? Exploration of Iraqi publication patterns shows a dramatic rise in activity through 1990, followed by a precipitous decline through early 2003. Iraqi engineering research emphases include chemistry and chemical engineering, information technology, applied math and simulation, applied physics, and ...

While the advantages of production sharing agreements (PSAs) for multinational oil companies are clear, there is a severe shortage of independent analysis of whether PSAs are in the short-, mediumand long-term interests of the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, the Iraqi people have not been informed of the pro-PSA oil development plans, let alone their implications, which have transformed so seamles...

Widely considered as one of the cradles of human civilization, Mesopotamia is largely situated in the Republic of Iraq, which is also the birthplace of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations. These lands were subsequently ruled by the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Mongolians, Ottomans and finally British prior to the independence. As a direct consequence of this rich h...

Recently, there have been reports in the news media of increased risk of suicide among current and former U.S. military personnel, particularly those who are serving or have served in either Afghanistan or Iraq, as part of Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) (1). This review examines relevant published studies and government reports that address suicide among current and form...

the present article is an attempt to familiarize with ashoura political poetry in the iraq contemporary literature. the emphasis is on hassen al senaid poetry as one of the most important remonstrant poets in iraq. the method of reading the revolutionary – political poetry which is related to the iraqi poet is inductive – analytical. the results have shown that the most important aim of the poe...

OBJECTIVE To examine breast-feeding and complementary feeding practices during the first 6 months of life among Norwegian infants of Somali and Iraqi family origin. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was performed during March 2013-February 2014. Data were collected using a semi-quantitative FFQ adapted from the second Norwegian national dietary survey among infants in 2006-2007. SETTING Somal...

Despite the profound impact of airpower on the course and outcome of the Gulf War, its employment has not escaped controversy. The coalition quickly cleared the skies of Iraqi aircraft, neutralized Iraqi medium and high altitude air defenses, brought Iraq’s entire command structure and military under attack, and systematically struck at the Iraqi field army in the Kuwait theater of operations. ...

Hearing loss and tinnitus are the 2 most prevalent service-connected disabilities among veterans in the United States. Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn have been exposed to multiple hazards associated with these conditions, such as blasts/explosions, ototoxic chemicals, and most notably high levels of noise. We conducted a systematic literature review of evid...

In this paper we describe a real-time speech recognition system developed for colloquial Iraqi Arabic. This system is currently used in our speech-to-speech translation system configured for bi-directional communication in English and Iraqi on a laptop. We present experimental results on Iraqi utterances from different speech-to-speech translation domains, and analyze the usefulness of acoustic...

Introduction: nowledge of standard dimensions which concerns the dental arch in human populating are very useful to clinicians in different fields of dentistry in orthodontics, prosthodontics and oral surgery and they are of great interest to anthropologists in studying the dental arch growth and development in relation to different environmental , genetic and physical factors for different pop...